sarah palin, neocon in training. be afraid; be very afraid.

Further links to the Cheney creepy school of secret government. We’re not even going to have to speculate about this line of influence, people. The neocons we’d thought had been discredited for their warmongering in fact consider themselves poised for a great victory and renewed influence with Palin. In his excellent post today, Andrew Sullivan sources a chilling Telegraph story. I picked a different quote here that frightens me more. It’s imperative that people realize just what’s at stake in this election. (Hint: d-r-a-f-t.)

“The neocons surrounded Dan Quayle, with William Kristol becoming his main tutor. Now both McCain and Palin are being closely advised by neocons. Far from being chastened by the Iraq debacle, the neocons are now poised for their moment of greatest influence.” Mr Buchanan has predicted Mrs Palin will become a major player for years to come.

“In choosing Palin, McCain may also have changed the course of history,” he said. “Should this ticket win, Palin will eclipse every other Republican as heir apparent to the presidency and will have her own power base, wholly independent of President McCain.” [emphasis on scariest bits mine]

Sullivan comments, “in so many ways, Palin is the apotheosis of the neocon dream. She siphons the religious fanaticism of the base to support war on behalf of what the neocons believe is in Israel’s and America’s interests.The goal is war against Iran and Russia. And a further deepening of the occupation of Iraq.”

Perhaps you thought, as I did, that Palin’s saber-rattling answers on foreign policy during the interivew with Charlie Gibson betrayed her lack of experience and judgment? Think again. The Telegraph goes on to say, “Comments by the governor of Alaska in her first television interview, in which she said Nato may have to go to war with Russia and took a tough line on Iran’s nuclear programme, were the result of two weeks of briefings by neoconservatives.”

We’re potentially poised not for more of the same, but for more and a lot, lot worse. Voting the McCain-Palin ticket is simply unconscionable. Unless, of course, you enjoy yourself a little Bush Doctrine; preemptive military strikes with a side of belligerence. Bill Kristol should be barred from promoting Palin and decrying the horrible, horrible bias of the liberal media as though he’s a journalist rather than one of the very engineers of this neocon gambit of which the American people are unaware. The image being peddled of Sarah Palin by the right is a far cry from the actuality. The neocons could give a damn about America’s infrastructure; about education, about jobs, about healthcare, about Social Security. They will bankrupt this nation and cripple its productivity all in the name of patriotism. They have so little respect for the American people that they count on them being suckers who will fall for this manipulation. Will we prove them right?

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. —Sinclair Lewis

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I have dropped my work for homeless Vets (even though my dear friend Richard has surgery tomorrow for stage 4 cancer from the Agent Orange the US Govt sprayed on him in Nam) and I have dropped my work to help stop rape and dropped my work to help educate people on the ravages of the sex industry on women and stopped working FOR Obama and I don’t think I’ve walked the dogs enough the last few weeks:

TO FIGHT THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT FROM TAKING FURTHER CONTROL OF AMERICA.

They are the root of ALL these problems – and they must be stopped.

The more research I have done to post all the new work the more I am scared to death it’s too late to save our country from the Christian right.

Just lost a long reply to you here. Argh! I can’t recreate it in full, but here’s version 2.0: thanks for your good work to expose hidden realms of influence where Palin is concerned, but I hope you don’t give up your work for Obama because he’s the best hope we have for repudiating the neo-con and Christian right influence in Washington.

Too bad that the disillusioned Evangelicals who were unlikely to turn out in November for McCain to be used yet again by the Republican party for its own purposes are now reenergized and falling for the same gambit. McCain was against the religious right long before he was for it, referring to the right-wingers as “agents of intolerance” in 2000. He’s only flip-flopped to court the Christian right for political expediency, and was excoriated on both sides for his solicitation (and subsequent rejection) of Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement.

McCain-Palin have nothing to offer in substantive issues, so their plan is to run a full-out negative campaign from now till election day. Charming. I hope their brand of dirty politics is repudiated in a landslide for Obama. This kind of poison corrupts the very soul of the country. Palin’s record in Alaska shows her to be a politician who lies, abuses power, is vindictive to those who cross her path, and who engages in cronyism. Those are Christian values at work? Evangelicals of this stripe are guilty of committing some of the deepest perversions of Jesus’s message. And they think they’re going to heaven more than the rest of us, seriously? I can’t think of a worse form of immorality than to wrap yourself in righteousness in the name of a religion while abdicating the mandates of personal conduct, as though salvation were a get-out-of-jail free card.